Lecturer feared killed as cultists clash in Yabatech over Champions league*Campus shut down

Juliana Francis
A lecturer was feared killed after some suspected cultists stormed Yaba College of Technology and unleashed hell over problem associated with European League.
The attack, which started on Wednesday, spilled into Thursday and academic programmes were immediately grounded.
Angry students were said to have gone on the rampage, attacking security guards, who they said had failed in protecting them against cultists. Some of the students said that just two weeks ago, cultists had also attacked at the Art faculty. This present attack has simply fueled the anger of the students on campus.
While some eye witnesses claimed that a lecturer was killed, another version of the story maintained that no lecturer was killed, but that student was brutally wounded and had since been rushed to hospital, where he is fighting to stay alive.
The campus was shut down by the school management after some students embarked a protest against cult activities in the school.
A student of the school claimed: “The attack started on Wednesday night, through the morning hours of Thursday. We heard that they went into the hostel and injured some many people.”
Policemen were alerted about the attack and had raced to the scene, only met the angry faces of students on protest. The police had tried to broker peace, but were turned back at the gate as the students held everyone within the
campus hostage for several hours.

It was also gathered that the clash and fear of attack kept all the students awake throughout the night.

The fight was said to have begun after an unnamed sports member was inflicted with machete cuts and fatally wounded by some cult members.

The student had had a problem with a cult member while the popular European tournament, Champions League, was on.
Another student said:"The sports man had refused to obey the order of the cult member. He was later was seized and beaten.
The cultists clubbed and machete him from the first gate to the second gate. He was bleeding. It was after this that his fellow sportsmen trooped out in his defence and fought the cultists.
This made the security men to shut the gate, and said no student would be allowed to move around."
This move was however resisted, as some of the students chased the security men from the gate and took over the security of the campus. School facilities were damaged in the rampage. The Chief security officer of the school was also assaulted trying to fight off the undergraduates.
The campus major roads were blocked as students waited for their rector to come and address them.
The Dean of Students Affairs, Mr. O.T Raheem later addressed
the students.
His words:  "Like many of you, I have not been able to sleep as a result of this protest. I apologise to everyone as a result of the
injury one of us sustained. There is no doubt that injury to one is injury to all. I can assure you that the management has set up a high-powered panel to look into this and none of the culprits will go unpunished be they students or lecturers."
He said the wounded student was being treated for his injuries at the school's medical centre and appealed for calm.